Former President Barack Obama and his family are set to visit his childhood home city of Jakarta at the end of their 10-day vacation to Indonesia, where they went whitewater rafting and visited an ancient Buddhist temple.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today that the new US ban on travellers from six Muslim countries was "truly shameful"."US now bans Iranian grandmothers from seeing their grandchildren, in a truly shameful exhibition of blind hostility to all Irania

A former Indian-origin CIA agent who was found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian imam by an Italian court more than a decade ago has said she intended to return to Italy to face her sentence, but hopes to avoid prison.

Tanks, missile launchers and chanting troops greeted President Xi Jinping in a potent display of Chinese military might today as part of his landmark visit to politically divided Hong Kong. The show of force came hours after activists were released from police custod

Senior IPS officer T P Senkumar, who won a historic legal battle with the CPI(M)-led Kerala government over his removal as state DGP, retired from service today.
Loknath Behra, director of Vigilance and Anti-corruption Bureau, assumed charge as the new DGP. He will although continue to hold the post of Vigilance director.

Congress MLA K S Sabarinathan today tied the knot with IAS officer Divya S Iyer at a temple in Thuckalay in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu this morning.
The low-key ceremony was attended by close relatives and friends of the bride and groom.

Air India area manager of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Vishut Acharya today said Alliance Air, a subsidiary of the national carrier, will operate a new flight on the Bhopal-Lucknow route from July 5 onwards.

Authorities today imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar as a precautionary measure against protests by separatist groups over the US' decision to declare Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin as a "global terrorist".

In a move that is likely to burden the pockets of common man mainly after GST comes into force on July 1, 2017, the State Transport Authority has notified hike for stage carrier busses i.e. local, ordinary express buses, semi-deluxe express, deluxe express, air conditioned express and air conditioned local buses plying in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

As part of the All India Protest Day, the Andaman and Nicobar State Committee of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions organized mass dharna and public meetings at Port Blair and Diglipur on Thursday demanding Rs 18,000/ as Minimum Wages for the workers, restoration of su

The Management Committee of Andhra Association here has decided to felicitate the first three rank holders of CBSE in each stream (Class X & XII) students of Telugu origin (irrespective of their medium passed out during the session 2016-17) residing in these Isla

The Central Island Agricultural Research Institute has released the agromet bulletin for farmers for the period from July 1-5, 2017. In the bulletin, CIARI forecast cloudy weather with light to moderate rainfall in the next five days.

Union Finance and Defence Minister Arun Jaitley’s open invitation to Russian firms, last week, to set up joint ventures with Indian companies to manufacture advanced military platforms through technology transfers couldn’t have at a more appropriate time as India gears up to overhaul its decades-old slow-moving defence production programme. India is the world’s largest defence and security gears importer.

Dalit vs Dalit. The battle line has finally been drawn. While the Opposition’s pick Meira Kumar will challenge the NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind with the motto to strengthen and uphold secular values, on his part Kovind will facilitate Sangh to reinvent itself and usher the country into a new polity with a distinct Hindutva super-structure.

India has established a direct freight corridor with Afghanistan, bypassing Pakistan. Neither Pakistan nor any other country can object to it. But China has. The Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, The Global Times, has dubbed it as a manifestation of India’s ‘stubborn geopolitical thinking’ because, the newspaper says, it is an attempt on India’s part ‘to counterbalance’ China’s economic corridor with Pakistan. This is ridiculous and is another instance of China’s hostile attitude to India.